CHA Recap for 10/19/2013

Oct 19, 2013

No. 3 Mercyhurst 1, No. 9 Clarkson 1 [OT]

POTSDAM, N.Y. – Sophomore Emily Janiga of
the ninth-ranked Mercyhurst University women's hockey team scored
in the second period to force a 1-1 tie against third-ranked
Clarkson University on Saturday afternoon.

The Lakers improved to 3-3-1 overall in the season and are now
8-4-4 lifetime against the Knights. Clarkson is now 5-1-1 overall
in the season.

After the opening period the Lakers trailed 1-0 after an even
strength goal was score by Clarkson's Christine Lambert. Shelby
Nisbet created a break up in the Lakers' defensive zone and sent
the puck up lose in front of the Mercyhurst net. Lambert came from
the left side of the ice and finished the puck behind goaltender
Amanda Makela.

The Lakers were outshot by Clarkson only 12 to 10 throughout the
first despite killing one penalty and had to overcome a Clarkson
five on three at towards the end of the opening period.

Clarkson started the beginning of the second period on a
power-play which Mercyhurst killed easily in the first 1:30 of
play.

Sophomore Emily Janiga collected her first goal of the season on
the equalizer at the 11:35 mark of the second period. Senior
Christine Bestland took advantage of an opportunity with two
Mercyhurst Lakers open in front of the Clarkson net after stripping
the puck away from defensemen Erin Ambrose behind the goal.

Bestland then took a look before passing the puck behind the
sight of netminder Erica Howe to Janiga who shot the puck to the
top left corner of the goal. The Lakers offense was ignited after
the goal as they took control the majority of the middle period.
Junior Shelby Bram was also awarded an assist.

Union 1, Penn State 2

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The Nittany Lion
women's hockey team used a late third-period goal from freshman
Laura Bowman(Minnetonka, Minn.) to defeat a stingy Union squad
Saturday afternoon at Pegula Ice Arena in front of 814. Celine
Whitlinger(Garden Grove, Calif.) stopped 20 shots and Jill
Holdcroft (Pennsylvania Furnace, Pa.) scored her first goal of the
season to pace Penn State (2-3-1).

The script in Saturday's game against Union (3-4-0) was much the
same as Friday night's game with the two teams tied at one entering
the third period. Union was unable to get past Whitlinger on a
power play midway through the period. The sophomore from California
turned away two power-play shots and 30 seconds after the penalty
expired, Union's Kelly McGrath took an elbowing penalty.

A nice string of passes led to Amy Petersen (Minnetonka, Minn.)
sliding a pass in front of net that got past Sara Nielsen (Edina,
Minn.). The puck bounced off the boards to Jeanette Bateman
(Greeley, Colo.) who rifled a shot off the pad of Lundberg where
Bowman was able to clean up the game-winner. The assist for
Petersen was her third of the year and Bateman notched her first
point of the season.

In the final frantic 90 seconds, Union pulled Lundberg and
Whitlinger lost her stick. Penn State was resilient, blocking
passes and disrupting the Union onslaught. Whitlinger stopped a
Maddy Norton attempt from distance as Penn State skated off with
its first win at Pegula Ice Arena.

Syracuse 4, Providence 1

PROVIDENCE, R.I.—Syracuse picked up its second win of the
season against Providence on Saturday afternoon, defeating the
Friars by a 4-1 margin. Four different Orange scored goals in the
contest and Jenesica Drinkwater made 25 saves in her first
appearance of the season.

The Friars had six more shots on goal but SU's 20 were enough to
claim victory. Melissa Piacentini recorded two assists in the
contest, giving her four on the season.

Syracuse was the first to score when Caitlin Roach scored the
first unassisted goal of the season for the Orange. Roach brought
the puck from the left face-off circle and past the goalies reach
to gain a 1-0 advantage with 6:18 left in the first period.

The Orange used a big second period to secure the win, scoring
two goals to take a 3-0 lead going into the final stanza.Allie
LaCombe scored the second goal of the game, the eventual
game-winner, netting one in a scramble in front of the net on the
power play.

Margot Scharfe found her first points of the season soon after
LaCombe netted her goal, scoring off a slap shot taken as she won
the face-off in the left face-off circle. Melissa Piacentini and
Eleanor Haines assisted on the play, helping get the puck to
Scharfe in a scramble to win the face-off.

LaCombe and Scharfe scored within three minutes of each other
with the game-winner scored at 1:17 and the lead-extender being
scored at 3:50 in the second period.

Providence scored a goal 5:15 into the third period to steal the
shutout from Drinkwater, when the senior goalie was unable to stop
a rebound of a breakaway shot by Brooke Simpson. Allison Micheletti
collected the bounce-back and slipped it past Drinkwater to cut the
Syracuse lead to two.

Julie Knerr had the final say in the contest, scoring midway
through the third stanza to secure the win and end with a score of
4-1. Credit the assists to Akane Hosoyamada and Larissa
Martynuik.

The Orange host Boston College and Union on Friday (7 p.m.) and
Saturday (2 p.m.), the first all-home weekend of the season.

Courtesy Syracuse Athletic Communications

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Colgate 2, RIT 1 [OT]

ROCHESTER, NY – Liz Trautz scored on
a 5-on-3 power-play 2:12 into
the overtime session to give Colgate (2-4-0) a 2-1 victory over the
RIT women's hockey team (3-4-0) in front of 738 fans at Ritter
Arena on Saturday evening.

RIT opened the period on a power-play and looked to end it just 15
seconds in, as Kolbee McCrea (Wawa,
Ontario/Burlington Barracudas) had a golden opportunity
from right in front of the net go off her stick. Seconds later,
McCrea was given an interference penalty.

While RIT was killing off that penalty, Celeste
Brown (Great Falls, MT/National Sports
Academy) was whistled for a body checking penalty. RIT
would not be able to clear the puck out on the ensuing 5-on-3. From
the slot, Nicole Gass fired a shot that Trautz redirected past RIT
goaltender Jetta Rackleff (Bend, OR/Anaheim Lady
Ducks) for the game-winner.

RIT out-shot Colgate 41-29. Both goalies were tremendous all
evening. Colgate's Ashlynne Rando made 40 saves and was named the
game's first star. Rackleff, who made her collegiate debut, was
very good between the pipes for RIT, stopping 27 shots. She was
named the game's second star.

Colgate scored both goals on the power-play, going 2-for-8. RIT,
despite firing 13 shots with the man-advantage, were 0-for-7.

Neither team scored in a quickly played first period, where each
team fired 13 shots on goal.

RIT held the majority of zone play over the first 10 minutes,
while Colgate battled back to have an edge over the last half of
the period.

Marissa Maugeri (Ajax, Ontario/Durham West
Lightning) had two great chances in the first two
minutes. She came in on a 2-on-1 and had her shot from the right
side stopped by Rando. Moments later, she had a great chance in
front stopped by Rando.

Rackleff, making her first collegiate start, had to come up big on
a scramble in front later in the period. Kayla Haus fired a shot
from the left side that Rackleff stopped. The rebound came to
Katelyn Parker who had a chance stopped by the goaltender.
Haus had a second chance in front that Rackleff gobbled up.

Both teams scored once in a lively second period, in which RIT
held a 15-13 edge in shots.

Lindenwood 1, Bemidji State 4

The Lindenwood women’s hockey team scored first on
Saturday in Bemidji, Minn., but Bemidji State scored the final
four goals of the game in a 4-1 win over the Lady Lions.

Just seven seconds into a power play in the first period, Katie
Erickson scored with an assist from Carrie Atkinson. It took the
Beavers just over one minute though to tie the game at one.

The score remained 1-1 until the third period and the turning
point came while the Lady Lions were on another power play. The
Beaver scored two shorthanded goals within 35 seconds of each other
to take a 3-1 advantage. Bemidji State added one more goal less
than two minutes later and that was the final goal of the game.

Lindenwood was outshot 39-20 in the game. The Lady Lions did
have the only power-play goal, but they were one-for-seven with a
man advantage, while Bemidji State was 0-for-five.

Lindenwood falls to 0-7-1 on the season. It travels to
nationally-ranked Wisconsin next weekend for a pair of games.